Was digging through the woodpile and decided to make a farie cottage. Used a small hickory limb for the cottage trunk and bradford pear bark for the roof. Very relaxing to make, no rules, and it can become whatever your imagination spits out.

This cane is 37 inches long with a Hard Maple shaft, Lace wood handle topped in Hard Maple with an Ebony spacer and ferrule. This type of handle shape I most often use on a hiking or trekking stick and wanted to try it out for comfort on a cane. Fits the palm comfortably.

All my canes and walking sticks are made by hand, with draw knife, spokeshave and rasp and therefore will contain some unique irregularities. Critiques and suggestions welcome.

This is an opera style cane with a hard maple shaft, walnut spacer, mahogany knob handle topped with bone and a mahogany ferrule. The cane is 34 1/2 inches long and 1 1/2 inches at the top of the shaft, making for a hefty stroller.

All my canes and walking sticks are made by hand, with draw knife, spokeshave and rasp and therefore will contain some unique irregularities. Critiques and suggestions welcome.

This woodspirit was saved from the woodpile, barely. He had quite a bit of rot to remove, but just enough good oak left for me to give it a go. He’s intended to be a wall hanging piece. Strange, but sometimes it seems that there’s more personality screaming to come out of an old half-rotten piece of wood than there is in a new fresh cut log section.

Haven’t posted much lately, but managed to finish a couple of new woodspirits. This is Silas, from a maple limb destined for the fireplace. You can tell he was a little bit afraid of being ember fodder.

This newest addition to our Woodspirit Garden is Ben. You’ll notice he had to be fitted with an eye patch. We have an ongoing woodspirit discussion group in our workshop at the end of each day to help them deal with the reality that they can now be seen by everyone. Before “coming out” they were viewed by most people as a tree trunk, limb, discarded tree root, etc., as only woodspirit carvers can see them hiding within the tree.

Trying to be a good host for the discussion group, and considering it’s a mixed group, maple, oak, and poplar, I thought I would break out the Guinness to break the ice. Well, after a few pints, one thing lead to another and Ben said something to Hiram about him not looking like poplar. Hiram thought Ben said he wasn’t popular, and next thing you know he hit Ben with a tomato stake. The saga continues.

This is the latest addition to our woodspirit family. His name is Bartholomew and he’s carved from Poplar and is 18” tall. As our other woodspirits, he’s made from fallen timber and resides with the rest of the clan, Hiram, Jasper and Jaffe in our garden.

I usually create woodspirits and walkingsticks, but I had a log of spalted maple from last year where most of the wood was punky. This abstract is what was left of the solid wood. It was inlaid with copper, some of which I finished with a patina. Also inlaid some small copper domes I made and heated for color. The cut-out in the middle was textured using some gouges and carbide bits.